Tudor Period Silver-Gilt Hat Pin

Composed of various coloured glazes and designs including dense foliage, geometric schemes, landscapes, figural scenes, architectural scenes, animals and others, in various styles. 6 kg total, 12.8 x 6.4 - 13.5 x 13 cm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

Standing on a hexagonal base wearing a goatskin mantle tied by the forelegs around his shoulders, with poppy seed-heads and bunches of grapes by the left arm; in his raised right hand, a bunch of grapes and in his left hand a cudgel; stump of a tree by his right leg and barrel beside his left, with a lamb to the rear placing its foreleg on top; modelled after the so-called Fauno Rosso from Hadrian's Villa, now in the Capitoline Museum. 18.5 kg, 67 cm high



From an important Paris gallery, France.

Half-man, half-beast, satyrs were believed to be the children of goats and mountain nymphs. Followers of the god Dionysus, they had a reputation for drunkenness and spent their days participating in orgiastic rituals. They represented the crude and boisterous facets of the stereotypical male persona, particularly of rural man.

Retaining an articulate press, the interior of one plate with four stamp designs, two larger and two smaller, each depicting the Crucifixion. 4.15 kg, 69 cm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.